Michael Klein

POSTED: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 3:47 PM

Four of Philly's hottest young chefs - Lee Styer at Fond, Jon Cichon at Lacroix, Nicholas Elmi at Rittenhouse Tavern, and Christopher Kearse at Will BYOB - are doing a set of four dinners at one another's restaurants.

The first was held last month at Will. The next $100-a-head feed is Monday, Feb. 4 at Rittenhouse Tavern at the Art Alliance. It's BYO-friendly, no corkage - though for $45 you get wine pairings. You can book at 6:30, 7 or 7:30 p.m.

Michael Klein

Twenty-one restaurants and the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District will run the first East Passyunk Restaurant Week from Sunday, Feb. 24-Sat. March 2.

Featured will be three-course brunch, lunch and dinner menus for $15, $25 and $35. The district is dribbling out info on the website; the lunch and $15 menus will debut between noon and 1 p.m. today, the $25 menus will debut between 7 and 8 p.m. today, and $35 menus will debut between 9 and 10 a.m. Friday.

However, I know of Will BYOB's $35 menu, to be offered Feb. 27 and 28:

Michael Klein

Not every boss will close the restaurants and take a dozen employees to Italy in the interest of research.

That's what Stalin Bedon and Tom Grim of Nomad Pizza did.

They're back in the States after about 11 days, and their shops at 611 S. Seventh St. and in Hopewell, N.J., will be back online Thursday, Jan. 31. (Actually, Bedon returned a day early to fix a problem at Seventh Street.)

Jalsa front man Kayur Popat told me that he yielded control of the restaurant while he recovers from an illness. In the meantime, his partners are emphasizing the lounge - which looks out over Market Street behind a fanciful metal grill - and have installed a bar-food menu.

They're moving the ground-floor kitchen to the basement, which should address issues with the space's layout.

Born and Barrett - nearing 20 years in business, including a partnership with fellow White Dog Cafe alumnus Kevin Klause at Farmicia in Old City - also intend the cafe to become a neighborhood gathering spot after hours.